BP laid eggs without a male

You gotta take her off the eggs candle them to see if they have veins if they don't toss them if they do get and incubator and some hatch right and incubate them at 89 degrees


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Put a towel or bowl over her head and gently lift her off the eggs. Usually she wont go after the hamd thays holding her so if you use your other hand to get her attention you can move her without getting struck at. Then you can quickly examine the eggs by shining a flashlight through them . If theres veins they are good. Leave them with the female untill you decide if you want to build incubator or let her do her own thing

My guess is that she may have been bred last year and never developed but kept the sperm. Females can keep sperm and use it the next year

Unless you have an incubator ready, leave the mom alone. If they are fertile, they will hatch in 60 days. If they are infertile, they will start to go bad within a couple weeks and mom will leave the nest. Why chance destroying the eggs, stressing mom, and perhaps ruining your chance of maternal incubation just to "know"? BTW, you can not just grab an egg and take it out then put it back. They are stuck together and if you rotate them they will die. Just my 2 cents.

here is my 2 cents. We maternal incubate. This season we had a 6 year old virgin breed and then lay 10 eggs. She sat on em for a few weeks and then she tossed them. They had to be removed and incubated separately. This was done just as everyone else does except that we just left em on a shelf in our snake room, as our room is kept heated to 86 via an electric oil heater. We use no other heat on our racks. Who knows how much they got rolled, but they certainly did as they were strewn all over her tub. All of them made it but 1. Luck? Maybe. You can take the mom off of the eggs and she will go back on them. They will also eat while sitting on eggs. We have not had one that wouldn't eat and we've been doing maternal for a few years now.
A female ball python can retain sperm for over 2 years. Not sure what the longest time ever is, but it is up there. I don't think that a ball python has ever laid eggs asexually (parthenogenesis), but Boas and Burms have done it. Not sure if a Retic has or not.

My 2 now. Make an incubator,you can find lots of videos on youtube. It is easier and it's less stress for you. Once you set the eggs with right temp and hatchrite, you only need to check 60 days later.
If you need advice on how to take them off the female and the setu and/or how to do the incubator just pm me.

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Lay a towel over the entire snake then simply lift her off the clutch. This may take a while, she will most likely tighten her grip a little bit but she wont crush the eggs so just lift slowly and the eggs will stay behind.

She will probably be REALLY unhappy about this but as long as you keep her under the towel she shouldn't strike.



Honestly If you aren't prepared for dealing with eggs and don't have a local shop to bring them to for incubation I would suggest candling them just for curiosities sake then toss them.